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| View Larger Image | Bryan Kest: Spinal Strengthening (CD & Booklet)
by Bryan Kest
| | List Price: | $25.95 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 246946 | | Studio: | PowerYoga.com | | | Binding: | Spiral-bound | | Number Of Pages: | 46 | | Publication Date: | May 01, 2002 | | Publisher: | PowerYoga.com |
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Book Description
Bryan Kest draws upon personal experience of injuring and going through a healing process with his own back to produce this extensive yoga routine for a healthy spinal region. This is the second in a series of live recordings just made available to the general public. The recording is of one of Bryan's 90 minute classes at his very popular Santa Monica, CA studio, in audio CD format accompanied by a beautiful instructional booklet. The audio CD is segmented into 8 tracks for easy repeating or forwarding. The booklet has over 100 photographed asanas (positions) that track the recording, along with detailed written instruction for key poses provided by Bryan. A nice treat: Bryan Kest is one of the two models photographed for the asanas. In addition to being an excellent, complete yoga routine for your library, the CDs are a compact format perfect for travelers. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 11 reviews)
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Caveat emptor- not an authentic yogi 
I've studied yoga for almost 10 years (all aspects) and I won't insult those real yogis and yoginis by calling Kest a yogi. But if you like your yoga instructors using gutter language, yelling it at you to instruct you through your practice like it's football practice in a most annoying voice, then Bryan Kest is your man! If you think his regaling of his in-studio audience with how he wants yoga to make him high, how "he wants to be stoned all day", is exactly how a yoga practice should be, then buy this CD.
But if you are like a lot of people who use yoga as a method for recovery from substance abuse, or a method of drug-free stress management, or think teachers should treat students respectfully, or (heaven forbid) believe that a yoga instructor shouldn't be so obnoxious that all you can focus on is him, rather than yourself- breathing, posture, etc., then skip this CD. Kest does not bring anything worthwhile to the practice of yoga and if he were a true yogi, he would know exactly how and why he is exactly the kind of yoga practitioner that the authentic yogis and yoginis of the East warn Western practitioners about- the false practitioner (and there are unfortunately a lot of them, think:fly-by-night-yogis who got a certificate from a yoga-instructor-mill). There is a whole way of life, called the 8-limbs of Yoga some of which were espoused by Gandhi himself (ahimsa), which Bryan Kest clearly has no idea about because he does not observe them in his yoga instruction. I know of one yoga-instructor-mill which shall remain nameless,(and I am not claiming Kest comes from there) that wouldn't know a Yoga Limb if it bit them.
Personally, I wasn't able to make it through the first 7 minutes of the first routine because of Kest's offensive demeanor. I threw the booklet and CD away shortly afterwards. I know a fake when I hear one. I know that there are far more respectful, talented and readily available "at-home yogis" products enough not to waste my hard-earned money on what Bryan Kest is peddling. Most likely the only reason he's even got a product on the market is because of his "connection" with Lisa Bonet-Kravitz-Lilakoi-Moon (or whatever she's calling herself these days).
July 24, 2008 | |
Good workout, maybe too difficult for beginners. 
Great exercises for a bad back. I started doing yoga with Bryan Kest with his original 3-part Power Yoga series, then I took great classes in the NYC area, and now I moved to the Philly suburbs. This CD is the best class I've taken since moving. It's great if you already have a background in yoga, not for beginners, but I love it.
June 27, 2008 | |
Awesome 
There are 2 CDs in the package, and I've done just the first CD which encompasses a little over 1 hour. It's quintessential Bryan. The poses are quite similar to those found in Intensive Body Sculpting, like the pretty challenging "half-moon pose" (which I haven't yet managed to perfect, but I'm working on it) but you also get a lot of boat poses for your core/abs (boat pose is when sitting, you raise your legs up straight until you form a "V" shape and you hold your legs for about five breaths, with your arms parallel to the ground) and a bunch of spinal stretches.
Overall, I thought the CD was good. It's part strengthening/part stretching, and complements Bryan's other practices. I don't know if there are other yogis who do poses like Bryan does his. I've tried Shiva Rea's Yoga Shakti (which I didn't like) and some Baron Baptiste (which I didn't think was as challenging as Bryan Kest). So it's safe to say I'm a Bryan-Kestophile. His stuff really gets me going.
Very strongly recommended.
July 29, 2007 | |
Good alternative to live class
A real live class is best, but this cd and booklet works very well as an alternative if you can't get to a real live class.
June 06, 2007 | |
Good for an already healthy back
I really enjoyed this CD, but I think it's important to note that it's called "Spinal Strengthening," not "Spinal Repair." It isn't appropriate for someone who is currently injured. Your back needs to be pretty strong & healthy to do this practice. It's actually a good all-around practice, and the instructor gives you plenty of time to get into the asanas and feel the benefits. That's what I like about Bryan Kest. A lot of other teachers who do this type of practice move too fast and have the same old asanas. He puts a different spin on it, and I enjoy it.
September 23, 2005 | |
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